Social Good – Charity and Technology in the online universe
1. U.S. charitable giving in 2009 – $303 billion (online donations $15 million).
2. Total average online donation $144.72.
3. Find a graph for online charitable donation growth in the attached infographic.
4. Largest online U.S. charities – United way, American Cancer Society, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Educational Media Foundation.
5. Largest offline U.S. charities – YMCA, United Way, Catholic Charities USA, Goodwill Industries, The Salvation Army.
6. Mobile Donations – After the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the American Red Cross began raising donations via text messages. Text’s sent to the Red Cross ‘s shortcode would charge $10 to the user’s phone bill. Phone providers helped ensure that 100% of donations went to Haiti.
7. 95% of them were first time donors.
With 400 million users in total and more thand 80 million monthly active users, the massive popular Facebook game Farmville. FarmVille’s parent company, Zynga, was valued at 1 billion dollars late last year. And no wonder if current studies reveals that netizens now spend more time on Facebook than on Google.
Now here is a infographic which compares the real with virtual i.e. Farmville vs Real Farms production of digital potatoes compared with the production of real potatoes worldwide. The web’s most popular game and the world’s most practised profession go head-to-head.
1. The average Farmville player is a 43 year old woman and average salary is more than $50,000 where as the average farmer is a 57 year old man and average salary is $35,000.
2. Top Farmville crops – Strawberries, Wheat, Grapes, White Grapes, Rice, Pumpkins, Cranberries, Soybeans, Peas, Sunflowers.
3. Top World crops – Sugarcane, Maize, Wheat, Rice, Potatoes, Sugar beets, Soybeans, Oil palm fruit, Barley, Tomatoes.
4. According to an estimate Zynga maker of Farmville pulled in 200% as net profit which is more than Facebook itself.
5. Agriculture makes up 5% of Gross World product.
6. 500 million acres of farmland has been farmed on farmville in first 15 months.
7. There are 930 million acres of farmland in the U.S.
8. 60% of the Farmville players are female and 13% of women operate in real farms.
9. Lets look at an interesting fact -Worldwide population 6.8 billion, people who work in agriculture worldwide 2.6 billion, people having access to internet 1.96 billion , Facebook user 0.5 billion, Farmville players 60 million.
10. Average time players spend on Farmville per week 70 minutes * 60 million users = 70 million hours thats an staggering number.
Facebook Privacy: 6 Years of Controversy
After the most popular social network in the world Facebook’s long – awaited location-based functionality Places was announced, serious privacy concerns for users of the social network pitched up.
This is not the only controversy which Facebook has sparked for its privacy practices. Facebook’s problems stretch back to before its founding when than Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg hacked into the school’s network to steal pictures of students for a site that ranked their attractiveness.
Attached is an infographic with the post tracing the history of privacy snafus that have dogged the platform since its creation.
Here is a quick snapshot
Feb 2004 – Facebook then called thefacebook.com, launched from Harvard dorm room. Mark Zuckerberg had to shut down an earlier site after facing Harvard sanctions for hacking into school directories and posting students photos without their consent.
Sep 2006 – There was a huge backlash from users who called the site “Stalkerbook” and protested that it was creepy to constantly see what their friends where doing.
Nov 2007 – Facebook responded to outrage by allowing users to opt out of Beacon.
Feb 2009 – Facebook announced that users would allow to “review, comment and vote on” a new set of Facebook principles and other policies.
Aug 2009 – Facebook announced policies based on Canadian government recommendations.
The graphic below was created for Mashable by Lisa Waananen.
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